Trick Shot (comics)

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Trick Shot
Publisher Marvel Comics First appearance Solo Avengers #1 (Dec 1987) Created by Tom DeFalco and Mark Bright

Trick Shot is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe.

Trick Shot began his professional career as an archer in a travelling circus. There, he met a boy named Clint Barton, who had been training under the Swordsman in the art of throwing knives. Swordsman thought the boy might have more value to him as an archer, so he began training under Trick Shot instead. The Swordsman had racked up a large gambling debt, so he robbed the leader of the carnival. As he sat counting the money, Barton walked in on him, and Swordsman tried to kill him until Trick Shot intervened.

After the boy recovered, Trick Shot involved him in an extortion scheme, which coincidentally involved the man that loaned money to the Swordsman. Trick Shot killed the man, and Barton killed one of the guards, who turned out to be his own brother Barney. Shocked by what he had done, Clint rebelled and the two archers shot at each other. The more experienced Trick Shot impaled Barton on a tree and told him that he would come back to kill him.

Years later, Trick Shot learned that he was dying of cancer, and sought out Barton, now known as the Avenger Hawkeye, to die in an honorable duel. The two men fought, but though Hawkeye won, he would not kill his old mentor. Trick Shot later learned that the criminal Crossfire had hired a group of criminals to kill Hawyeke and intervened.